Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1226, East Tianzhu Colony

The estuary of the Ganges River, above the location of later generations of Bangladesh.

Here, the two brothers Zhang Yanling and Zhang Heling established their own colony, and built a Shouning City and Shouning Port at the mouth of the Ganges River in order to rule and plunder this vast colony.

At the same time, this place also became the bridgehead for the Zhang brothers to invade Myanmar. The two brothers have always coveted Myanmar's emeralds and jade, and wanted to turn Myanmar into their own colony.

For this reason, the two brothers even used all kinds of means. On the one hand, they organized other vassal kings, business houses, and families of Ming Dynasty to attack Burma, so as not to be robbed.

Another aspect is that the Burmese Emerald Firm was listed on the Tianjin Stock Exchange, raising several million taels of silver to form a colonial army of [-] people, ready to wait for the opportunity to attack Burma.

The two brothers also invested heavily in the emeralds of Myanmar. In recent years, the profits of the industries under the Zhang brothers have basically been invested by the two brothers.

Occupy here first, establish Shouning City, and then use Shouning City as a base to continuously expand your colony, find out the situation in Myanmar, and train your own colonial army.

For this reason, the two brothers almost moved their Zhang clan here, and they didn't even plan to return to Daming for the New Year, but directly celebrated the New Year here in Shouning City.

In the Governor's Mansion in Shouning City, the Zhang brothers' colony is the same as that of the Western United Commercial Bank. They all rule and govern the colonies in the form of the Governor's Mansion. Colonial Governor.

"The Chinese New Year is coming soon, where is the present for the Empress?"

Zhang Heling was busy sitting on his governor's chair.

Being the governor of a place requires a lot of things to be busy with, but there is no way to spend time in the capital bullying men and women like before.

"The news just came that it has been delivered to the Empress Dowager. The Empress Dowager likes it very much, but she misses you both, Lord Hou and Uncle. They said that Master Hou and Uncle must not be able to eat well or sleep well in this wild place. Well, I can’t even go back for Chinese New Year, and I shed tears because of it.”

Next to Marquis Shou Ning, Zhang Yong hurriedly replied that Zhang Yong was a descendant of the Zhang family, and almost all the important positions in the entire East Tianzhu Zhang colony were held by Zhang's children, which was different from the Western United Commercial Bank.

Because they are all Zhang's children, they are all a family, so they are more united than the Western United Commercial Bank, which is the same as many family colonies.

"Sister is really too, isn't it just that I didn't go back during the Chinese New Year? When I'm done with these things, I will go back naturally."

Hearing Zhang Yong's words, Shou Ninghou also said helplessly.

Empress Zhang said sincerely to her two younger brothers, of course, Shou Ninghou and Jian Changbo are also very kind to their sister, even if they are overseas, they don't forget to send gifts during the Chinese New Year.

"The Empress also said that she will find a way to let His Majesty send troops to attack Burma directly, so that you and uncle can go back earlier."

Zhang Yong smiled, the Zhang family is able to have what it is today, in fact, it depends on Queen Zhang, without Queen Zhang, the Zhang brothers are nothing, and their Zhang family is nothing.

Empress Zhang is the only wife of Emperor Hongzhi and the mother of the current crown prince. With this relationship, as long as the Zhang family does not rebel, they can withstand anything.

"Women's views are short-sighted~"

"The imperial court sent a large army to fight it down. How could it be easily handed over to our Zhang family?"

"When the time comes, the duck will become someone else's."

When Zhang Heling heard it, she couldn't help shaking her head immediately. This sister of hers really has no vision and is short-sighted. Fortunately, she really loves her two brothers.

"Has the Bengal Sultan not been caught yet?"

Without thinking about Queen Zhang again, Zhang Heling asked about the Sultan of Bangladesh.

This place originally belonged to the Sultanate of Bangladesh. The Zhang brothers invaded here and turned it into a colony. They fought wars with the Sultanate of Bangladesh one after another. They also beat the Sultanate of this country to flee. They are still hiding in Tibet.

"Not yet. It is estimated that they may have fled to the Delhi Sultanate."

Zhang Yong quickly replied.

"The Delhi Sultanate?"

"Next year it will come to an end, and the whole of Tianzhu will be divided up by us Daming people. They can escape for a while, but they cannot escape for a lifetime."

Zhang Heling said very confidently.

"Has all the rice harvested in the colony this year?"

"It's all been harvested, according to the [-]% standard. This year's harvest is bumper, and the grain we harvested is piling up like a mountain, and we can't sell it at all."

"If you can't sell it, use it to raise pigs, cattle, horses, and brew wine. These can always be sold, right?"

"I heard that the Egyptian canal is being excavated. Hundreds of thousands of Egyptian laborers have been recruited, and a lot of food is needed. Send someone to Egypt to inquire about the situation and sell them at a cheaper price. Mosquito meat is also meat, so don't waste it. .”

Zhang Heling thought about it and said.

The plundering of the colonies is mainly divided into resource plundering, including the plundering of precious resources such as gold, silver and copper. East Tianzhu does not have any valuable resources, so it is more disadvantaged in this regard.

The second is the plundering of the harvest. The Zhang brothers occupied this place, but did not slaughter all the original aborigines, but allowed them to continue to live, but they had to pay taxes to the Governor's Mansion.

Food tax is naturally the most important tax.

It is not suitable for growing cotton, spices, etc., but it is extremely suitable for growing rice, sugar cane, and tea.The yield of rice is extremely high, the quality of tea is also very good, and the sugar content of sugar cane is very high.

In order to fully plunder the wealth and resources here, the Zhang brothers built a large number of plantations here, which are under the direct jurisdiction and management of the Governor's Mansion, specializing in the cultivation of economic crops such as sugar cane, tea, and jute.

Another aspect is to rent out the fields to the local aborigines for farming and collect rent. Thirty percent of the annual harvest belongs to the governor's mansion, and the remaining seven floors belong to the aborigines who planted the fields.

Thirty percent of the tax, in the present Ming Dynasty, is quite terrifying. The local fields in the Ming Dynasty are almost uncultivated, and the rent is falling again and again. In most places, the rent is less than [-]%. This is the case, and it is often difficult for the landlord to rent out all the land.

But for East Tianzhu, [-]% of the tax is quite low.

In the past, under the rule of the Bengal Sultanate, people in these places almost had to pay more than half of the harvest, and at the same time had to undertake many heavy tasks like corvee.

Moreover, the land is privately owned and highly concentrated, which aggravates the pressure and burden on the bottom people.

After the Zhang brothers occupied this colony, they brought all the land, minerals, resources, etc. under the Governor's Mansion, and killed all the nobles, lords, etc. of the original Sultanate, or sold them as slaves to Nanyang and other places.

After confiscating all the land, it is naturally impossible for the Zhang brothers to plant it by themselves, so they sub-lease the land according to the average population of each place, which is tantamount to land reform in disguise.

In addition, only [-]% of the tax is collected, so that although the Zhang brothers are outsiders, they quickly gained a foothold here. The low-level aborigines here are very supportive of the Zhang brothers' rule.

Because there is more land that can be cultivated, more food can be left every year, the tax pressure is greatly reduced, and life is much better than when the Sudan ruled before.

Of course, the Zhang brothers did not open a charity hall, but it was more in the interests of the Zhang brothers. The food collected from the colonies every year alone was so huge that the Zhang brothers became the largest in the Indian Ocean region. Grain merchants, specializing in selling cheap grain.

Many colonies and vassal states that lack food will ask the Zhang brothers to buy food.

"Yes~"

Zhang Yong quickly wrote it down.

"How's the situation here in Myanmar?"

After asking about the situation in the East Tianzhu colony, Zhang Heling did not forget to care about the affairs in Myanmar.

Compared with the little silver for selling grain, what the Zhang brothers value most is the jadeite from Myanmar. A good piece of jadeite can be sold for thousands of taels to tens of thousands of taels of silver.

This is the big business, the big money coming in, and the purpose of laying down here is to invade Myanmar and seize Myanmar's emeralds and jade.

"The conflict between the Mon and the Wa is intensifying. In addition, Shan State is restless with our support. It only takes some time for them to fight, and then we can reap the benefits of the fisherman."

Zhang Yong quickly replied.

Burma is still very strong. Siam has been beaten all over the place, and even the capital city has been breached by the Burmese army. However, the internal situation is also very complicated. Several powerful clans do not hesitate to fight civil wars. When a war breaks out, especially when one side is strong, they always want to unify the whole of Myanmar.

"That's good, keep cheering them on, let them fight earlier, the harder the fight, the better."

Zhang Heling nodded in satisfaction. Although the two brothers were synonymous with waste in Daming, they have become elites overseas and know how to sow discord.

"Big Brother~Big Brother~"

"Something happened, something happened!"

At this moment, Uncle Jianchang Zhang Yanling hurried in, and the voice came before he arrived.

"What happened?"

Zhang Heling asked very puzzled.

Their own colony is peaceful here, and these natives who are well fed are very docile and obedient, and they dare not resist the rule of the Zhang family at all, and what big things can happen.

"It's something big happening on the side of the Western United Commercial Bank."

"The governor of Ceylon, Hu Xian, wants to monopolize the Western United Commercial Bank. A few days ago, he dismissed Zhang Yuan, Feng Xiang, and Zhu Benduan, and appointed their Hu family members to take charge of the entire Western United Commercial Bank. Wantonly arrested the people sent by our families."

Zhang Yanling said hurriedly.

"Well, you Hu Xian, you don't even look at how many catties you have, you dare to swallow my Zhang family's things, you don't even look at whether you will die, the boss behind this doesn't even dare to provoke me easily, Fortunately, you are still thinking about monopolizing the Western United Firm, you are really not afraid of death."

When Zhang Heling heard this, he immediately stood up, his eyes widened in disbelief.

This Hu Xian dared to think of monopolizing the Western United Firm, it was really audacious.

"Brother, what should we do?"

"How to do?"

"Assemble the colonial army and prepare to attack Ceylon Island! Our Zhang family's things are not so easy to swallow!"

(End of this chapter)